The Rose

176 IMPROVEMENT ERA 25, 1853, and with her had five sons and four daughters, He was a member of the famous Salmon River party of Prest. Brigham Young, in 1856. On Feb. 18, 1855, he was ordained Patriarch by Prest. Brigham Young. In 1859, he returned to the east for his sister and her family, and while gone visited Nauvoo, and the scenes of his boyhood. Returning, he conducted a company of forty wagons over the plains to Salt Lake Valley. Then he was called to go on a mission to Scandinavia, landing in Denmark, Sept. 6, 1862, and from which he returned, leaving Copenhagen, April 13, 1864. He sailed from Liverpool on The Monarch of the Sea, with a company of 973 souls, the largest company of Saints that had left Europe up to that time. He conducted a company of thirty wagons over the plains, and arrived in Salt Lake City, October 1, 1864. Since that time, he engaged in his duties as Presiding Patriarch, in early days covering the settlements of the whole Church, blessing the people, and administering to them comfort and consolation. More than twenty thousand, as stated, were thus blessed by him while he officiated in this holy office and calling. These, and hundreds of thousands of others, now bless his memory. Appro- priate funeral services were held in the great tabernacle on Sunday, November 12, and his remains are at rest in the City Cemetery, until the resurrection day. The Rose. Thirty-one crimson stanzas, full of poetic fire, fervor, and philosophy, in the author's own hand writing; and twenty-one artistic drawings of golden roses, in every attractive position, with love as all the theme, — the cover, title-page, paper and general design, in the highest art to match — that isTHE Rose, by the poet- artist, Alfred Lambourne. In every part of its make-up, the book testifies it was created only for the love of poetry and art. Only a hundred copies were printed, to be circulated among the poet's friends. The readers of the Era have Mr. Lambourne to thank for being favored in this issue with four of the stanzas and four of the artistic rose designs. The community have him to thank for one of the most artistic books ever made by a home printing office. It was executed by the Deseret News presses and bindery.